Right now I have a 20gal tank, but next week I will be buying a 40gal tank for my new little bp to grow up in. Anyway I have 2 questions about heating pads:

1) is it fine to have the heating pad positioned under his hide away, or will this cause the temperature in the hide to be to high? Is the hide suppose to be a cooler place? or will the heat from a heating pad under it be fine?

2) I have owned lizards in the past. For them I used a reptile heating pad that sticks to the underside of the bottom of the tank, but I have also heard people use the heating pads you use for people for their bp's.

If so, which would be more efficient, and how do you go about placing a normal heating pad you would use for a person under the tank? Do you just lay it under the tank? Is there any real advantage to either type of heating pad? I understand that normal heating pads have a heat output control on them which would be usefull, but does this justify it over the ones built for reptile tanks?

Thanks...

p.s: me and my girlfriend (Tati) ended up naming our new guy "Pina". Tati is a bartender so we named the little guy Pina after the drink Pinacolada